Chinese medicine has a scientific theory?

The cause of traditional Chinese medicine is a major event related to the country's economy and people's livelihood, and the debate on the issue of traditional Chinese medicine has never stopped in the past hundred years, since? The basic theory of Chinese medicine? Yin-Yang and Five Elements is pseudo-science? and? To withdraw Chinese medicine from the current medical system? and the need to withdraw Chinese medicine from the current medical system? In the eyes of the general public, science is synonymous with correctness and validity, and the claim that the basic theories of TCM are pseudo-scientific has been criticized by some. Yin-Yang and Five Elements is pseudo-science has naturally aroused strong opposition from supporters of Chinese medicine, but what exactly is the relationship between Chinese medicine and science? What kind of connection does the character of science have with the foundation of TCM theory? The basis of the theory of Chinese medicine on the development of Chinese medicine and what kind of influence on the road?

The basic theories of Chinese medicine mainly include the doctrines of yin and yang, five elements, luck, organs, meridians and collaterals, as well as the cause of disease, disease mechanism, diagnosis, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, health care and other contents. Yin and yang is an ancient Chinese philosophical category, Chinese medicine uses the concept of the unity of yin and yang to describe the human body up and down, internal and external parts of the human body, as well as human life activities with nature, society and the complexity of the external environment between the links between the relative balance of the unity of yin and yang is to maintain and ensure that the human body's normal activities of the basis, such as the balance of the imbalance and the destruction of the body's development of disease, affecting the normal activities of life. The doctrine of five elements uses five philosophical categories such as wood, fire, earth, gold and water to summarize the properties of different things in the objective world, and uses the dynamic pattern of the five elements to illustrate the interconnectedness of things and the law of transformation. Chinese medicine mainly uses the five elements to explain the functional connection between the five viscera and six bowels and the mechanism of disease development when there is an imbalance in the bowels, and is also used to guide the treatment of diseases of the bowels. Thus, the foundation of Chinese medicine belongs to the philosophical category, which is based on yin and yang and five elements.

The reason why the yin and yang five elements is only philosophy rather than science, the reason is that it does not abide by? Objective, logical, empirical, repeatable test? and other scientific methods and rules, nor does it have the scientific theory of ? It does not have the exclusivity of scientific theories. and? Falsifiability? When faced with something as objective as human disease, one cannot derive a theory based on the Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory. exclusivity? explanation of what is disorder, what is excess, what is disharmony, and what is deficiency? There is no quantifiable standard, treating the same patient, Wang said that the spleen and stomach and Chinese medicine, but Li said and very it, the two are based on the same yin and Yang five elements, but who is right and who is wrong is not clear.

In recent years, the state vigorously support the development of traditional Chinese medicine, support the development of traditional medical care in the motherland, Chinese medicine is a complete medical system, its theoretical system is vast and complex, it has a self-contained understanding of the method, of course, we can not simply to the theory of Chinese medicine is not science and categorically negate it, the theory of Chinese medicine is correct and reliable, the key lies in it whether it has been tested in practice. It is conceivable that if the use of Chinese medicine theory that is incompatible with science to recognize and guide the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and get a reliable positive conclusion, it is of course a confirmation of the theory of Chinese medicine, but also a supplement and correction of science, how to test the validity of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine becomes a key issue.

For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has been derived from the long river of China's history and has not been eliminated by history. Before the introduction of Western medicine into China, it has always been Chinese medicine in the country to cure the sick and save people's lives. Chinese medicine is not omnipotent, and its effectiveness and scientificity cannot be denied just because it is not a cure-all for all diseases. The inheritance of Chinese medicine requires both succession and innovation. The theories of Chinese medicine recorded in ancient books are not entirely correct, and need to be groped for in clinical practice, through the continuous efforts of generations of medical practitioners, and constantly revised, and continuously improve the theoretical system of Chinese medicine. Although the current development of Chinese medicine road twists and turns, but we believe that Chinese medicine can still ride the waves, riding in the long river of history, generation after generation of inheritance, development, and carry forward.